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Category Archives: Shakespeare
The Swerve: Modernity & The Creation Of Contemporary Life
Just as contemporary historians and philosophers are finally beginning to ride astride the findings of Catholic theologians on distinguishing variable modes of the Enlightenment (Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Courtney Murray, Henri De Lubac and Gertrud Himmelfarb) all come to … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquity, Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Paul II, Philosophy, Shakespeare, Theology
Tagged 14th Century, Augustine, austerity, Cicero, Gerturd Himmelfarb, Hans Urs von Balthasar, hedonism, Henri De Lubac, Henry VIII, John Courtney Murray, John Fisher, Levant, Lucretius, Poggio Bracciolini, Positivism, Quintillian, Reformers, relativity, Steven Greenblatt, Tertullian, Thomas More, Vitruvius
Civilizational Growth Or Decline: Technique, Expansion, Finding The Criteria For Intelligibility Of Civilizations
It remains out of vogue in our age of political correctness to speak of either growth or decline of civilizations. But I do believe that their are criteria to discover a field of intelligibility from which to study and determine … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, China, Conservatism, Constitution, Education, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Harry Jaffa, International Relations, John Paul II, Morality, Near East, Perils Of Specialization, Politics, Raymond Aron, Shakespeare, Sun Tzu, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Ancient Empires, Assyria, Classical Greece, Demise Growth Civilization, Expansion, Geographic, Herodotus, Peloponnesian War, Shakespeare Tragedies, Technique, Thucydides, Toynbee
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The Domestic Challenge Facing The West
Just what exactly is a culture war? It’s about competing forms of authority, and how they inform and shape human freedom. Today that war is waged within the once sacred, confined domain of the family, sexual ethics, law, technology, even … Continue reading
Lawrence Kaplan
“The sleep of reason breeds monsters.” … Continue reading
Posted in China, Conservatism, Constitution, Harry Jaffa, International Relations, Islam, Middle East Peace, Money, Morality, Poets, Raymond Aron, Reagan, Sex Abuse Crisis Church, Sexual Ethics, Shakespeare, Sociology, Terrorism
Tagged Monsters, Reason
Shakespeare: Political Statecraft for a Christian World
Political science is becoming ever more reliant on abstract models divorced from human judgement, hope and Christian idealism. In a word: humanism. Shakespeare offers the political scientist an antidote to this methodological alienation, this self imposed exile from the political … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Constitution, Ethics, International Relations, Literature, Morality, Perils Of Specialization, Politics, Shakespeare, Theology, Uncategorized
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A New Beginning
Every life begins with great promise. How this promise grows depends on our willingness to accept the challenge of grace in all its tragedy, comedy and unique wonder. Every person knows what fearful destiny waits us; namely death. Nevertheless, in … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, Benny Avni, China, Conservatism, Constitution, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Harry Jaffa, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Journalism, Literature, Management, Mark Halprin, Marriage Preparation, Mass/Liturgy, Morality, Music, Mysticism, Oriana Fallachi, Perils Of Specialization, Peter Drucker, Poets, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Prayer, Raymond Aron, Reagan, Satan/Evil, Sexual Ethics, Shakespeare, Sociology, solzhenitzen, Supreme Court, Terrorism, The Demise Of The Black Family, Theology, Uncategorized
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